Mansoor Ijaz was born in Florida and grew up on a farm in rural Virginia. Ijaz received his bachelor's degree in nuclear physics from the University of Virginia in 1983 and master's degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985, where he was trained as a neural sciences engineer. His father, Dr. Mujaddid Ahmad Ijaz, was a theoretical physicist who played a major role in Pakistan's nuclear detterence development throughout 1970s and 1980s, and was a pioneering figure in the designing of the weapons.

Ijaz developed CARAT, a currency, interest rate and equity risk management system. He started his own investment firm in 1990. Away from Crescent's daily business affairs, Ijaz serves on the College Foundation Board of Trustees at the University of Virginia and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mansoor ijaz said in this interview that he was in that wrestling because his wife forced him to do so , because her friend in that wrestling ,The video for Italian house DJ Junior Jack's 2004 single 'Stupidisco', features scantily clad female wrestlers fighting it out on stage.

Mansoor Ijaz appears in the video comments on the ongoing match. At one point he is heard saying, "Look at that, we've got some real tumbling going on here."